Being a Good Mentor

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10/26/2016

Becoming a mentor gives you a way to share your wisdom and knowledge with someone less experienced. People who mentor also benefit; studies have shown they often earn more money and promotions than nonmentors. But there are some important guidelines to consider before you start this mutually beneficial relationship. In the course, professor Ellen Ensher, author of Power Mentoring, explains how to get to know your protégé, shares the dos and don'ts for appropriate self-disclosure, and helps you develop a structure and agenda for each mentoring meeting.

She also offers guidance on building trust and chemistry, providing feedback, and helping your protégé make critical career and work decisions and become resilient in the face of challenges. She also helps you address common obstacles, including a protégé that fails to meet expectations or violates trust, and explains how to gracefully exit the relationship.

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Topics include:

Building a relationship with your protégé

Talking and listening with impact

Giving feedback

Developing trust

Setting goals

Developing your protégé's skills

Managing mentoring relationships

Overcoming common obstacles

How to make time for mentoring

Skill Level Beginner

1h

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- Why should you care about being a great mentor?Because mentoring matters.Research shows that those who have mentorsand serve as mentors actually make more moneythan those who are not involved in mentoring.Mentors tend to be more engaged in their jobsand get more promotions than those who are not mentors.Most importantly, those who serve as mentorsreport gaining tremendous joy from their relationshipswith their proteges.

I'm Ellen Ensher, a business professorat Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.I teach Human Resource Managementand Organizational Behavior.I wrote the book Power Mentoring:How Mentors and ProtegesGet the Most Out of Their Relationshipsalong with my co-author Susan Murphy.We interviewed 50 CEOs, presidents, and executive mentorsand their proteges from technology, media, and politics.In this class, I'm gonna take youthrough the whole life cycle of being a great mentor.

This includes key skills like active listening,building chemistry, discernment and decision-making,giving feedback, using self-disclosure,ways to build grit, and even breaking up gracefullywith a protege.By taking this class, you are watching me get readyto have proteges watch you.Mentoring is my calling.I'm so grateful to be here to share what I've learned.